The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.